AIAA Presents Awards at International Student Conference Written 23 January 2015

January 23, 2015 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation recently presented four student awards as part of its International Student Conference, held in conjunction with the AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech 2015), January 5–9, in Kissimmee, Florida.

The winners were:

• In the Undergraduate Team Division – Braden Hancock and Timothy Nysetvold, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, for their paper, “A New Mechanism for Combining (epsilon)-Dominance and Pareto Knee Exploration in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization.” Hancock and Nysetvold received a $1,000 prize.



• In the Individual Undergraduate Division– Jonathan Tsosie, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, for his paper, “Colorimetric Hydrogel-Based Microfluidic Assay System to Monitor Malnutrition in a Microgravity Environment.” Tsosie received a $1,000 prize.



• In the Graduate Division – Gabriele Fabbi, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, for his paper, “Theoretical and Numerical Approaches for Impact Load Identification on an Aerospace Structure Correlation with Experimental Data.” Fabbi received a $1,000 prize.



• In the Community Outreach Division – Carlie Shields and Robert Swasey, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, for their project, “Engineers on Deck.” Shields and Swasey received a $500 prize.